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may be necessary to blot him entirely out of existence. Many 

 of our best apples are very sensitive to his presence. The noble 

 Wealthy, one of the best apples, cannot endure him. I heard a 

 preacher once say when speaking of the Lily of the Valley, that 

 it was so "Very beautiful and so fragrant that you could smell 

 it two miles away," and he added "that is just so with the 

 Christian. " It is so with the Platte Cedar, and the Wealthy 

 don't like the smell. It is so rank it makes all the leaves fall. 

 The reputation of the Cedar is decidedly rusty. 



THE SCOPULORIUM. 



Or Rocky Mountain red cedar. At first we supposed this 

 was the mother of the platte cedar. But she disowns him, has 

 no relationship with him, and will have nothing to do with him. 

 They are different in form and foliage. The Rocky Mountain 

 tree needs two years to perfect its seed. Again there will be 

 several seeds in the berry of the Platte cedar, and only one in 

 the berry of the Scopulorium. I have had them growing side 

 by side for years. Last summer the Platte cedars all died with 

 the blight or looked as if they wished they had, and the Scopu- 

 lorium made a vigorous growth, and not one died. I think this 

 for the Western half of Nebraska is the most beautiful tree on 

 earth. There will be some fungus bulbs on them even when 

 wild in the mountains, but they do not seem to effect them in 

 the least. It is a pitty that these are so scarce. People did 

 not know about the seeds, and they gathered them the first year 

 and none came up. They are very scattering and of course 

 high. But there should be one planted here and there. They 

 grow in very compact, conical, symmetrical shape, and often 

 have a drooping habit which makes them look as if shingled 

 with silver of emerald. There are some under the 100th meri- 

 dian as fine as any trees on earth. The Concolor is growing in 

 favor. It is a little sensitive to our changing climate while 

 young, but when it gets age it is very hardy. I have had them 

 in exposed places during the most fearful heat and in the full 

 sweep of our American Siroccos, and they would come out un- 

 scathed. I have seen them growing on a hill and in the grass 

 in a Nebraska Cemetery, and under such adverse conditions 



